Friday, November 30, 2012

Small circles complete bigger ones. This is the final piece for the Drawing a day -series that has been going on now for 365 days. A year in Japan. In addition to photography, daily drawing has offered a way to record life from a different perspective. And more than stopping movement in an observation it has been a way to move.

Well, it isn't my first time drawing, but being here in an alien environment without a studio and possibilities to work like I normally would, this restriction of just using a pen and a piece of paper turned out to be a great opportunity. It's been both an opportunity to refine my visual language, as it was a crucial way to survive as an alien. When the new and otherness grows unbearable, a page in the sketch book opens up a vast field dedicated for speaking in my own words. I have a voice and it stays with me.

At the moment I'm planning on making this series into a book but I will upload more drawings and other things here in the future too, but not on daily basis... for a while at least. Thank you for watching. I drew a day.